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Bowl

15th century

Chinese

A sense of order and perfect balance distinguishes 15th-century blue-and-white porcelain. The motifs of this bowl are painted in imported cobalt blue, which contains dark spots-the effect known as "heaped and piled"-which is due to the high-iron cobalt likely imported from Central Asia.

Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration

4 in. (10.16 cm), height

8 1/2 in. (20.6 cm), diameter

Diam. bottom: 3 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

49.154

Photo: Paul Macapia

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics", September 7, 2002 - November 19, 2002

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective", December 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009 (12/22/2007 - 7/26/2009)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe", Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 60

"Chinese Porcelain an Export to the World", Joint Publishing Company, (H.K.) Co. Ltd., 2008, pg 19

Finlay, Robert. "The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History". Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2010, illustrated pl. 14.

Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).

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